Posted on: Thursday, June 21, 2007
Posted at: 6/21/2007 07:25:00 PM
Posted at: 6/21/2007 07:25:00 PM
Cassandra, u rock sis! Talked to cassandra and i felt much better. Thanks sis. She gave me some advice. Guys, read below. =D Hope u guys like it. =)
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Put 3 pots of water over the fire.
In the first pot, put some carrots.
In the second pot, put some eggs.
In the third pot, put some coffee beans
that have been grounded into coffee powder.
Boil all three pots for 15 minutes.
Take out what you have put in.
The carrots went in hard.
They are now soft.
The eggs went in soft inside.
Now they are hard inside.
The coffee powder has disappeared!!
But the water has the colour and the wonderful aroma of coffee.
Now think about Life.
Life is a great mystery.
Life is not always easy.
And definitely not always comfortable.
Sometimes, life is very hard to us.
Things don’t always happen like we wish.
People don’t treat us like we hope they would.
We work very hard but often get few results.
What happens then when we face difficulties?
Now think about the pots.
The boiling water is like the multifaceted problems of life.
We can be like the carrots.
We go in
tough and strong.
We come out soft and weak.
We get very tired.
We lose hope.
We give up.
We quit.
There is no more fighting spirit in us.
We give up the fight.
Don’t be like the carrots!!! Fight on!!!
We can be like the eggs.
We start off armed with a soft and sensitive heart.
We end up being very hard and unfeeling inside.
We hate others.
We don’t like ourselves.
We become hard-hearted and suspicious.
There is no warm feeling, only bitterness.
Don’t be like the eggs!!!
We can be like the coffee beans.
The water does not change the coffee powder.
The coffee powder changes the water!
The coffee powder affects its environment & does not yield to adverse circumstances!!!
We can be like the coffee beans.
We can make something good out of the quagmire of the multifarious difficulties we face.
We can learn new things.
We can have new knowledge, new skills, new abilities.
We can build!
We can grow in experience.
We can make the world around us better!
To succeed, we must try… and try again.
Sounds right?
Of course not! We must do…and do again!
Like Yoda says in ‘Star Wars’:
“Try? There is no try. There is
only do or not do.”
(of course, grammar is not Yoda’s forte!)
So,……
to succeed, we must do… and do again.
We must believe in what we are doing.
We must not give up.
We must be patient.
We must keep on…
pushing.
Opportunity must be seized.
You make things happen, not wait for things to happen to you.
When there is an obstacle, you will reap the greatest benefit when you have taken pains to overcome it.
Problems and difficulties give us the chance to become stronger… and better… and tougher.
What are we like when things
do not go well?
Are we like the carrot…
or the egg…
or the coffee bean?
Be like a diamond,
which embodies and symbolises excellence!
For what is a diamond,
but a piece of coal
that did extremely well
under great pressures?
Above all,
be like the coffee bean!
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Put 3 pots of water over the fire.
In the first pot, put some carrots.
In the second pot, put some eggs.
In the third pot, put some coffee beans
that have been grounded into coffee powder.
Boil all three pots for 15 minutes.
Take out what you have put in.
The carrots went in hard.
They are now soft.
The eggs went in soft inside.
Now they are hard inside.
The coffee powder has disappeared!!
But the water has the colour and the wonderful aroma of coffee.
Now think about Life.
Life is a great mystery.
Life is not always easy.
And definitely not always comfortable.
Sometimes, life is very hard to us.
Things don’t always happen like we wish.
People don’t treat us like we hope they would.
We work very hard but often get few results.
What happens then when we face difficulties?
Now think about the pots.
The boiling water is like the multifaceted problems of life.
We can be like the carrots.
We go in
tough and strong.
We come out soft and weak.
We get very tired.
We lose hope.
We give up.
We quit.
There is no more fighting spirit in us.
We give up the fight.
Don’t be like the carrots!!! Fight on!!!
We can be like the eggs.
We start off armed with a soft and sensitive heart.
We end up being very hard and unfeeling inside.
We hate others.
We don’t like ourselves.
We become hard-hearted and suspicious.
There is no warm feeling, only bitterness.
Don’t be like the eggs!!!
We can be like the coffee beans.
The water does not change the coffee powder.
The coffee powder changes the water!
The coffee powder affects its environment & does not yield to adverse circumstances!!!
We can be like the coffee beans.
We can make something good out of the quagmire of the multifarious difficulties we face.
We can learn new things.
We can have new knowledge, new skills, new abilities.
We can build!
We can grow in experience.
We can make the world around us better!
To succeed, we must try… and try again.
Sounds right?
Of course not! We must do…and do again!
Like Yoda says in ‘Star Wars’:
“Try? There is no try. There is
only do or not do.”
(of course, grammar is not Yoda’s forte!)
So,……
to succeed, we must do… and do again.
We must believe in what we are doing.
We must not give up.
We must be patient.
We must keep on…
pushing.
Opportunity must be seized.
You make things happen, not wait for things to happen to you.
When there is an obstacle, you will reap the greatest benefit when you have taken pains to overcome it.
Problems and difficulties give us the chance to become stronger… and better… and tougher.
What are we like when things
do not go well?
Are we like the carrot…
or the egg…
or the coffee bean?
Be like a diamond,
which embodies and symbolises excellence!
For what is a diamond,
but a piece of coal
that did extremely well
under great pressures?
Above all,
be like the coffee bean!